I'm sure you will know this Dave and Peter, but for the benefit of others: Overhead is good for observation, but no good at all for radio. Meteors have to burn up on the horizon for maximum radio impact.

I plan to record as much of the event as possible, hard drive space permitting. i.e. depending on how many medium wave files I have recorded. This time, I will beam south-east and horizontally, instead of my usual vertical / north-east.

I have managed to free up some space on my hard drive so I can record some overnight Quadrantids, but I am hoping there won't be a problem. Medium wave is currently showing better conditions and so I will be recording from my Perseus receiver at the same time - to the same hard drive. I hope this won't be a mistake. I will run a trial this afternoon to see.

The reason most of my hard drives are full is because they still have lots of Es recordings and I do not want to delete them until I have checked them.

I wondered if anybody else had tried recording two SDRs to the same hard drive?

I think you will run into issues. SDR apps write a lot of data to the disk and there will be enormous contention between the two apps. No doubt memory buffering will come into play - how much memory do you have?

I think you will run into issues. SDR apps write a lot of data to the disk and there will be enormous contention between the two apps. No doubt memory buffering will come into play - how much memory do you have?

Can't each SDR record to a different disk?

Stuart

Taking the 2nd point first. That's how I run my set-up - each SDR has it's own 2Tb drive. That allows me the flexibility to record from two directions using separate aerials, or low band and high band at once. Or record from one drive whilst playing back recordings from the other drive, which is useful if there is no opening - but you are hoping to catch one.

As for recording two SDRs to one external drive. It seems to work with no dropped buffers for my PC (i-4460 / 8 Gb ram USB 3.) external drive). SDR 1 is an RSP1A at 8 Mbps sample rate - the other an Airspy mini at 6 Mmbps sample rate.

As for the Quarantids - lots of short pings from 14:30 to 18:30 on the 3rd beaming N-E - from Sweden and Denmark. Then from 1 am to 5 am on the 4th it was very lively with lots of short bursts at more than one a minute - from the East. A fair number throughout at RDS levels. Next recording session will be from 1 pm to 5 pm today (4th).

Looks like I successfully recorded both MW and FM overnight, but I did manage to free up some space and record to separate drives, just in case.

Now, finding the time to listen. Hmm. Lots to do today, so I will set SDR Radio's Data File Analyser to go through the recordings while I am getting on with other stuff. I should be able to start compiling a log later, but it may take me a day or two.

It looks like MS activity declined as the morning went on. I recorded between 03:00 and 09:00. My 03:00-04:00 and 04:00-05:00 files revealed a good level of activity, but my 05:00-06:00 files are considerably quieter.

I am half way through my first session. Logs here: http://www.fmlist.org/fm_logmap.php?dat ... &omid=2404 I am wondering if I can be bothered with more of this. It's the same stations, over and over again. Or is it me. Perhaps I am just turning into an impatient old git.